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Rockstar closes Vienna office, lays off 1,000

May 12th, 2006
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Rockstar Games, makers of Grand Theft Auto have closed down their Vienna office and fired the 1,000 programmers and artists. The Vienna department was responsible for porting the GTA series to Xbox and Max Payne 2 to PlayStation 2.

Rockstar closed the office because of “due to the challenging environment facing the video game business and our Company during this platform transition.”

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